Hybrid Associate Scrum Master

at ACI Worldwide

• Job title: Associate Scrum Master
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Timisoara, Romania

About the role

• Assoc Scrum Master coaching Scrum teams at ACI in Timisoara, Romania. Facilitating Agile practices and guiding teams towards self-organization and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Coaches Scrum team (and organization) to deliver value incrementally, using best Agile/Scrum practices.
• Drives the execution of sprints by removing impediments, facilitating agile meetings, backlog reviews, sprint planning, sprint reviews, reporting (burndown charts, task progress) and day-to-day decision making.
• Drive retrospective meetings to help the team become more productive over time.
• Facilitates an environment for the Scrum team to organize themselves around their work, helping them become self-aware to what is blocking results, and to influence them to become self-correcting, self organizing and continuously improving the way they work.
• Utilizes strong listening and observation skills to engage the Scrum team when necessary to build connections.
• Guides the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values.
• Facilitates discussion, decision making and conflict resolution while getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
• Assesses the Scrum maturity of the team and organization and coaches the team to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
• 2+ years previous Scrum Master or project management experience and/or relevant experience within a software development environment.
• Knowledge of Agile methodology and frameworks. Strong knowledge of scrum theory, rules and practices.
• Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.
• Basic knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand team needs.
• Scrum Master Certified preferred.
• Ability to understand and drive toward commitment to deliver the product on time.
• Excellent leadership and organizational skills.
• Demonstrates strong accountability.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• JIRA experience a plus.

Benefits

• opportunities for growth
• career development
• competitive compensation and benefits package
• innovative and collaborative work environment